I ran it as a midweek training run all part of the training for my 35 mile ultra marathon on the 14.07.12 in Abingdon. I have never run this far before but I decided to run the whole 26.2 miles on Tuesday as it was 1year and 1 day since Amber had passed away. In fact all my runs this week were in her memory.
During my marathon run I had to knock on 2 doors, walk into a pub and disturb an elderly couple picnicing all just to ask for some water as I ran out that often. Every single one gave me water and offered fruit\snacks with a smile and declined my offer of payment. I have to say that experience made me believe that our society is not all wrong and that we still do care about each other and that put a huge smile on my face.
I had however encountered an ignorant, rude and borderline dangerous female walker who decided to not give way at all when I was running my first fast interval session on Monday. I had three choices; 1. run into her and possibly cause injury to her and I
2. try to stop and fall over possibly causing injury to myself
3. side step onto a busy road and hope for the best
Yes I side stepped onto the road into oncoming traffic and thankfully I was fast enough and the driver was not speeding. So that annoyed me but her rudeness to shout something at me which was not an apology really enraged me but I decided not to let that affect me as this interval session training was in memory of Amber! I managed to improve my magic mile from 6:33min to 6:09min despite running into oncoming traffic.
My last run was a 10 mile run which I ran on Friday evening with some sore legs after my marathon run on Tuesday and two very busy clinical 12.5 hour shifts. Despite those sore legs I managed to run it in a decent time with a great finish at the end.
Sadly I have no more news on the fund raising site yet as we are still waiting for the taxman to finish his due process. It takes ages and is a little annoying but that also means that not anyone can set up a charity and a charitable account which is reassuring.
Stats Zone:
Runs: 3
Distance covered this week: 40.35 miles
Distance covered this month: 55.56 miles
Strength walks:7
Distance covered: roughly 15.5 miles
Daily strength challenges completed: 5/7
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If you would like to raise money for The Amber Phillpott Trust. and other charities supported by The Yeah Baby Concert and to see me finish my 35 mile long Ultramarathon, then please come to the YeahBaby event in Abingdon Oxfordshire on the 14.07.2012 for a free day of music, stalls, face painting etc... and soon I will be able to create my sponsorship website so watch this space
Well done you! I've had to beg water before and always been surprised how willing people are to help. Training seems to be going well...Kepp up the good work
ReplyDeleteThank you Jo it was a strange but nice experience....
DeleteGreat blog Florian - so inspiring, keep up the great running, walking and fundraising my friend.
ReplyDeleteCheers Mike I hope to start fund raising soon as soon as the taxman has done his final bits....
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